Messenger: New camera with numerous features available in time for the holidays worldwide

We are pleased to announce today a new, faster and easier-to-use camera function for messengers. With numerous design possibilities and special effects, entertainment is now even better. The new camera will be available worldwide in the coming days.

Communication via Messenger is becoming more and more visual - every day messengers send over 2.5 billion emojis, photos, stickers and videos. People are increasingly using the camera instead of their keyboard. Because more and more people use the messenger in their daily lives, we wanted to make sending photos and videos even faster, easier and more entertaining - so we developed the new messenger camera.

What's New?

It is now even faster and easier to capture moments and share with others. The new messenger camera is available directly in your inbox and is just a click away - no matter if you are already in a conversation or the app has just opened. The shutter is centered at the bottom of the screen: With one click you take a photo and if you hold down longer, a video is recorded.

In addition, we introduce a new place where you can find stickers, pictures, frames and special effects. We are very pleased to introduce 3D masks and special effects that make it easy to transform your photo into a work of art. Just try it out - you can make a self portrait and turn into a reindeer, play with snow, or just ask someone how he is. It's the perfect way to send a little happiness with your messages.

We have also added thousands of stickers, frames, masks, and effects from which to choose. We have worked with artists and influencers worldwide who have personalized these little extras according to their preferences.

And that was not all! Even your text messages can be even more entertaining in the Messenger. Just click the palette icon on the trigger to add images and stickers to your text. So your conversations about what you are doing, how you feel and what you are planning even more colorful. Of course, it is still possible to send a plain text message. All the functions you know and love from the Messenger remain the same.

Create an individual view of the year on Facebook

As in the past few years, members of Facebook are able to compile their individual highlights from 2016 and share with family and friends. The personal video contains important life events, photos, markings and the most popular contributions from the past twelve months:

Year retrospect for 2016 on Facebook

Every day, people share on Facebook the most important moments and events. As in every year, Facebook's 2016 annual review looks back on the subjects that moved and debated most people.

The following topics were the most common among people in 2016:

Presidential elections in the USA

Political unrest in Brazil

Pokémon Go

"Black Lives Matter" movement

Election of Rodrigo Duterte as President of the Philippines on 9 May

Olympic Summer Games

Brexit vote

Super Bowl

Death of David Bowie on January 10th

Death of Muhammad Ali on June 3

With the launch of Facebook Live this year, Facebook is showing the world's most successful live video of the year. A viral success landed "Chewbacca Mom" ​​Candace Payne with 164 million calls - of which alone 70 million in the first 24 hours after the release. The folk musician Ted Yoder with his zither version of the classic "Everybody wants to rule the world" as well as the buzzfeed countdown to the next presidential election in the USA were also very popular.

The Top 10 lists for the annual review were based on how often a topic was mentioned in Facebook posts between January 1 and November 27, To compile these lists, Facebook contributions were aggregated and anonymized before analysis. In this way, a ranking could be created, which simultaneously shows a cross-section of the Facebook year. The top 10 of the live videos is based on the overall views.

Facebook Introduce More Ways to Connect and Share Moments

Every day people use Facebook to share moments with their friends. Today Facebook introduce a marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.

Messages from Facebook will appear at the top of News Feed about a specific event or moment. The mission goal is to:

Give people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events

Help people discover fun and interesting cultural moments

Celebrate moments in history that continue to make the world more open and connected.

Facebook care about the social community and want to make their experience more delightful with the launch of this program. Facebook hope to give people new ways to connect and share and be informed about events and moments happening in the world around them.

This is just the beginning and Facebook will continue to work to make these messages better for the community around the world.

Happy Holidays!

Facebook Wishes for the First Day of the Summer

Your Facebook wish you a very happy and warm summer!

Here is the image that will make you feel happy!

Screenshot from Facebook.com

What will bring us Facebook this summer?

On the image are illustrated friends under a big umbrella.

People with no eyes, no mouth - what Facebook want to say with this to us - at Facebook you are just one from billion people and you have no real emotions - the real emotions are outside, not in front of your computer or smartphone?!

The good on the image is that the people out there have no devices and are playing with the dog, reading a real paper book and eating ice-cream.

360 Degrees Photos now available on Facebook

360 Photos are trend and Facebook want you to be able see such photos on your Facebook Newsfeed.

It is very intuitive method to view 360 photos - just have a picture open on your Facebook App for Android or iOS and move your hand around. The panorama begin to move with your movement.

If you look 360 images on your computer, you have to click and drag to the direction you want.

You can try this by open the 360 image below on your FB App or on your computer.

Now we at Sociotrope are waiting for 360 Photos on Instagram. Still to come? What do you think?

Mark Zuckerberg Live Video on Facebook

If you missed the live video from Mark Zuckerberg now you will able to see the full video.

Mark answers questions from the live comments below the live video.
Zuckerberg makes several people happy by answering their questions about 360 photos, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, live video, entrepreneurship and Facebook future.

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